In this paper the Italian Humanist Lucrezia Marinelli (1571-1653) will be examined from the two complementary perspectives on her place in the late Italian Renaissance Studies and her contribution to the philosophy of woman. Marinelli is remarkable in both areas of intellectual history; and her relatively unknown contributions make it even more exciting to present to the English speaking public an assessment of her work. In Part I of this paper, Filippo Salvatore, examines her writing as an epic poet in the first part of the seventeenth century; in Part II Sr. Prudence Allen, considers her significance as a philosopher of the concept of woman at a crucial turning point in western intellectual history; finally, in Part III, Filippo Salvatore underlines Marinelli’s significance as a political thinker.

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• Allen, P., Salvatore, F., (2025), "Lucrezia Marinelli and Woman's Identity in Late Italian Renaissance", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Allen, Prudence; Salvatore, Filippo. "Lucrezia Marinelli and Woman's Identity in Late Italian Renaissance." Renaissance and Reformation 28 (4): 2010. 5-39. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v28i4.11678. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.